USS Bear

Title: USS BEAR (1884-1944)
Caption: Moored to ice in the bay of whales just before her departure from Little American in February 1941, with 33 members of United States Antarctic expedition.
Description:
Catalog #: NH 50185
Copyright Owner: Naval History and Heritage Command
Original Creator:
After this Year: 1940
Before this Year: 1949
Original Medium: BW Photo.

much of a muchness

swamp
Bennett’s Creek, the water later runs into the Chowan River then to Albemarle Sound. It is south and west of the Dismal Swamp

swamp
Merchants Mill Pond. via two-lane roads, south and east, skirting the Nottoway River, Courtland Road, Jerusalem Plank Road, Plank Road, through the town of Courtland, bypassing Franklin, crossing the Blackwater River, directly south to North Carolina on the Gates Road, rt.666, through Reynoldson, Wileyton. The Park is near Gatesville NC

open water
Much of a muchness? These clearly baldcypress, but upstream on Bennett’s creek, seemed that there were red maple and tupelo in the mix.

still point

Town Creek sunrise

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
–T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets, Burnt Norton

Friday

cross
Jesus answered “You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will understand”.-John 13:7